“…Starvation or undernutrition during life cycle of aquatic organisms can occur either in the natural environment or under culture conditions due to spatial and temporal patchiness of feed resources (Zhang, Zhang, Li, & Gao, ). In recent years, it was determined that starvation has an effect on growth (Eroldogan, Kumlu, Kırıs, & Sezer, ; Li et al., ), oxidative stress parameters (Furne et al., ), some antioxidant indexes (Li et al., ), oxygen consumption, metabolic enzymes (Powell & Watts, ), blood biochemical parameters (Shi et al., ), immune system (Verghese, Radhakrishnan, & Padhi, ), protein (Garcia‐Garrido, Hachero‐Cruzado, Rosas, & Domingues, ; Muhlia‐Almazan, Sanchez‐Paz, Garcia Carreno, Peregrino‐Uriarte, & Yepiz‐Plascencia, ), lipid and fatty acids (Cicek & Kumlu, ; Durazo‐Beltran, Viana, D'Abrama, & Toro‐Vazquez, ; Morillo‐Velarde, Valverde, Llinares, & Garcia, ; Smith, Thompson, Ritar, & Dunstan, ) and reproduction (Chatzifotis, Papadaki, Despoti, Roufidou, & Antonopoulou, ) of aquatic organisms. At present, the effects of starvation in Astacus leptodactylus have yet to be investigated.…”